Helena, If you want anything from my salvia collection to get your garden started again, it's yours, let me know, ok? I deployed to Houston Texas on 9/4/05 for 11 days for response to Katrina. I was part of a preventive medicine team charged with helping to keep the evacuees healthy in the Astrodome and near by shelters at Reliant Park. Joseph

I've been thinking about you, Anglophilia, and wondering if you were okay. I'm so sorry to hear you're not doing well. Prayers for remission and better health. Hope you feel better very soon.

Wondering how her renovation project is going and wanting to see more pictures.

I am with Sheila on this one. I’ve been a member of other forums where a member died, and relatives were always gracious if the inquiry was respectful and sincere. Each time, they were pleased that the deceased was so well liked in a online community and relayed some details they wanted the forum to know about the deceased. I had found Merlena’s home and cell numbers and tried to call them. The home just kept ringing, the cell was answered by a man who did not know her. So I have no further leads. But had she answered I would have just said I was BenT on the rose forum and a bunch of us hadn’t heard from her and were hoping she and her garden were well. That’s all.